Category Archives: Bolivia

So we were both very excited about our salt flats adventure but I was also a little nervous or apprehensive as I had been reading the reviews of the trip and out of 5 people, 4 people thought it was the highlight of their trip. The other thought it was a living nightmare. So we gotContinue reading “Salar De Uyuni”

A quick pack up and breakfast and we were off on day 2. Back in the land cruiser and back on the “road”. It was really quite a good day as we were covering a fair few kms but we were stopping fairly regularly to get out and have a look around. The landscape onceContinue reading “Day 2 in the 4wds”

Day 3 started ridiculously early with a departure time of 4am. This was so we could be out on the actual salt flats by sun rise. The early start was definitely worth it! We had about an hour of driving from the salt hotel until we actually hit the flats. As were driving along, theContinue reading “What a finale to the Salar de Uyuni”

It had been a pretty hectic and sleepless couple of days and while we both had really enjoyed our trip across the salt flats we were keen to get to Potosi, our next destination, as quickly as possible. Having been dumped rather unceremoniously in the street in Uyuni we quickly found the “bus station.” NotContinue reading “Potosi”

Although Bolivian buses leave a lot to be desired, some of the bus trips are truly spectacular and the short 3hr trip from Potosi to Sucre was no exception. When I say it took three hours it was actually more like two hours of driving and 1 hour of getting out of the bus terminal.Continue reading “The Most Beautiful Sucre”

We decided to try and organize a guided hike in the mountains around Sucre for one of the days while we were there. We found a tour agency that was offering the hike we wanted however for just the two of us it was going to be quite expensive. We luckily ran into Thibaut andContinue reading “Unsuccessful hike outside of Sucre”

Even though Sucre had easily enough to keep us occupied shopping wise we had read that a visit to Tarabuco markets was well worth it and although our trip the day before hadn’t gone too well off we went (with the same company as we had booked both at the same time)! Once again aContinue reading “Tarabuco Markets”

The places we have visited have all been amazing, but sometimes the journeys there are worth noting too! Bus travel in South America so far has been pretty good but Bolivia is certainly giving it its own twist. Our first mistake was trying to load our bags on the bus ourselves (as we have doneContinue reading “La Paz”

In preparation for our 6000 metre mountain climb we decided to do a day trip where we would climb a 5400 metre mountain but the difference being you were driven to 5200 metres and only had to climb up the last 200 metres. We were picked up in a bus and drove into El AltoContinue reading “Chacaltaya and Valle de la Luna”

   That’s the mountain, unfortunately covered in cloud but pretty impressive nevertheless.   Our guides, William in the middle and France on the left.    Early days looking very fresh.    The weather had turned at this point but as you can see spirits are still high.    It was pretty tough going to say theContinue reading “Huayna Potosi”